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...polished on a federal court of appeals, have been singled out as the factor most likely to make him a star in his new job. But that is a little like ballyhooing the passing skills of a college quarterback: no matter how good he is, he may well play backup his first year in the pros...
Other highlights of System 7.5 include "QuickDraw GX," an improved imaging architecture; a new version of Finder that allows for automation of common tasks such as disk backup; and "Apple Guide," a new help system that walks the user step by-step through unfamiliar applications...
...federal government sucks--by December. (He mentions that the thesis is 88 pages, which means the chapters average about nine pages in length--what kind of thesis is that? Never mind, though--he loses it.) The silly boy's hard drive crashes, and he does not have a backup on floppy. Rushing through the Yard to Kinko's to xerox his one printed version of the essay, he trips in the snow, and his thesis falls through a grate into the bowels of Widener Library...
...protein finds an error in one of the words spelled out by DNA's four-letter chemical alphabet, it flashes an alarm. A person born with only one good copy of any of these genes is fine, until some cell in his or her colon loses or mutates its backup copy. Without a spelling checker, mutation piles upon mutation, telescoping the time it takes for cancer to develop...
Hasek came into the 1993-94 season as Grant Fuhr's backup and came out with a 1.95 goals-against average. That mark has been bettered only once in the last 25 years, and that was by the same Bernie Parent that single-handedly backstopped the Flyers to a Stanley Cup title...